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it is just too many of us applied second half of 2001
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gctakingtoolong
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probably..
but CP has its own risks and in my case my lawyer preferred AOS over CP.. when i applied(RD 11/28/01; ND 12/14/01) AOS was taking about 8 months and now it has been 16 months and still in wait stage..
but CP has its own risks and in my case my lawyer preferred AOS over CP.. when i applied(RD 11/28/01; ND 12/14/01) AOS was taking about 8 months and now it has been 16 months and still in wait stage..
question
i am a december applicant, and like your case,
my company/lawyer forced me to apply aos. (eventhough i asked for cp)
they said it is only taking 9 months vs 4 months. However noone noticed the #of applications increase starting july 2001.
i wondered what happened that lead to 485 applications increase . Even lawyers fail to predict this,
i am a december applicant, and like your case,
my company/lawyer forced me to apply aos. (eventhough i asked for cp)
they said it is only taking 9 months vs 4 months. However noone noticed the #of applications increase starting july 2001.
i wondered what happened that lead to 485 applications increase . Even lawyers fail to predict this,
My Company Lawyer advised us to go for AOS too. My friend who applied thru CP 3 months after we did got his GC 7 months back. I think lawyers make more money if we apply thru AOS(more hours spent on our case) cos they get paid hourly.
I should not have taken my lawyer's advice. Anyway nothing can be done now. I am ok cos as of now there is no threat of losing my job.
RD 11/02/01
ND 12/05/01
AD - Waiting...........
I should not have taken my lawyer's advice. Anyway nothing can be done now. I am ok cos as of now there is no threat of losing my job.
RD 11/02/01
ND 12/05/01
AD - Waiting...........
what happened
What happened? One needs not be a rocket scientist to answer this question. There are at least three reasons:
1. The thriving economy (or should I say e-conomy) of the late '90s led to an unprecedented surge in the number of approved LC for IT professionals.
2. In the summer of '01 ALL priority dates suddenly became current (virtually overnight! Nobody could explain the phenomenon, although I seem to recall that a number of leading immigration attorneys -- Shusterman, Murthy, Khanna -- had mentioned the possibility in their periodic bulletins). Combined with the fact that many beneficiaries of the IT-based LC's were from previously "capped" India, China, etc. -- all of them became eligible for AOS in a heartbeat, and quite understandably rushed to file thoudands of I-485's in the matter of days.
3. As we all know, good intentions pave the road to a certain rather warm and sulfur-smelling place. Ditto about now-defunct INS's policies of concurrent filing (I-140/I-485), premium processing (I-129), etc. The former, introduced roughly around the same time, turned out to be the last straw that broke INS's neck.. The infamous backlogs were back with a vengeance! There's no need to mention the most famous missteps of the agency -- those were the last nails in the coffin.
Sounds plausible?
Originally posted by 8yearsus
(...) what happened that lead to 485 applications increase . Even lawyers fail to predict this (...)
What happened? One needs not be a rocket scientist to answer this question. There are at least three reasons:
1. The thriving economy (or should I say e-conomy) of the late '90s led to an unprecedented surge in the number of approved LC for IT professionals.
2. In the summer of '01 ALL priority dates suddenly became current (virtually overnight! Nobody could explain the phenomenon, although I seem to recall that a number of leading immigration attorneys -- Shusterman, Murthy, Khanna -- had mentioned the possibility in their periodic bulletins). Combined with the fact that many beneficiaries of the IT-based LC's were from previously "capped" India, China, etc. -- all of them became eligible for AOS in a heartbeat, and quite understandably rushed to file thoudands of I-485's in the matter of days.
3. As we all know, good intentions pave the road to a certain rather warm and sulfur-smelling place. Ditto about now-defunct INS's policies of concurrent filing (I-140/I-485), premium processing (I-129), etc. The former, introduced roughly around the same time, turned out to be the last straw that broke INS's neck.. The infamous backlogs were back with a vengeance! There's no need to mention the most famous missteps of the agency -- those were the last nails in the coffin.
Sounds plausible?
immigration analysts
thank Stripped. #2 alone and only reason is behind this.
could it be predicted ? may be..
just want to make an analogy btw stocks analysts and lawyers
We rely on lawyers to do best for us (not for them) based on what may be coming ahead related with immigration.. just like we relied to stock analysts to make decisions related which stocks to buy..
The end result is the same i think, if one does not work on your case yourself, one is destined to fail.
I just i can hope i can survive until the 2001 backlog is cleared. If not , just like what happened in the stock market, i would not be able to ask/demand anything from my immigration analysts.
thank Stripped. #2 alone and only reason is behind this.
could it be predicted ? may be..
just want to make an analogy btw stocks analysts and lawyers
We rely on lawyers to do best for us (not for them) based on what may be coming ahead related with immigration.. just like we relied to stock analysts to make decisions related which stocks to buy..
The end result is the same i think, if one does not work on your case yourself, one is destined to fail.
I just i can hope i can survive until the 2001 backlog is cleared. If not , just like what happened in the stock market, i would not be able to ask/demand anything from my immigration analysts.